The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life.
The man who has God for his treasure has all things in one.
People have faith in ‘faith’ and largely forget that our confidence is not in the power of faith but in the Person and work of the Savior, Jesus Christ.
If we take away any of the attributes of God, we do not weaken God but we weaken our concept of God.
In coming to Christ we don’t bring our old life up to a higher plane; we leave it at the cross.
Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, “Be thou exalted,” and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once. His Christian life ceases to be the complicated thing it had been before and becomes the very essence of simplicity.
Nothing twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God.
It’s time for us to rise up, get out of the rut and routine, and begin to take our Christian faith seriously.
Real faith invariably produces holiness of heart and righteousness of life.
It will cost you everything to follow the Lord. And it will cost you even more to be His man for this hour.
I am Thy servant to do Thy will, and that will is sweeter to me than position or riches or fame, and I choose it above all things on Earth or in Heaven.
It is a high Christian privilege to pray for one another within each local church body and then for other believers throughout the world. As a Christian minister, I have no right to preach to people I have not prayed for. That is my strong conviction.
We must never edit God.
Show me the condition of your Bible and I will accurately gauge the condition of your soul.
If you do not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him on one day a week. There is no such thing known in heaven as Sunday worship unless it is accompanied by Monday worship and Tuesday worship and so on.
Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.
Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us.
I like Easter. But let’s remember that Christ’s resurrection is not truer at Easter than at any other time of the year.
If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. If the Holy Spirit had been withdrawn from the New Testament church, 95 percent of what they did would stop, and everybody would know the difference.
I believe that the imperative need of the day is not simply revival, but a radical reformation that will go to the root of our moral and spiritual maladies and deal with causes rather than with consequences, with the disease rather than with symptoms.